Vaccines for concertgoers. Hello and welcome to the programme. Tokyo has recorded its highest number of new Daily Covid cases for six months ahead of the Olympics Opening Ceremony in a matter of hours. Almost 2,000 infections have been reported as the Host City remains under a State Of Emergency. The official opening of the games later will be a subdued affair, with just 1,000 guests due to attend. Lets go live now to our sports presenter, sarah mulkerrins, whos in tokyo. And sarah, theres only a matter of hours remaining until the Opening Ceremony . Good Afternoon And Welcome to tokyo. We all wondered, didnt we, if we would ever get here to the Opening Day of the olympic games with the Official Ceremonyjust hours away. The coronavirus pandemic, well, it has altered the shape of these games into something we have never quite seen before for an 0lympics. They were delayed by one year, they are now here but they are, as you say, a more subdued affair. Today we had got the latest numbers
Using the pretext of a political grievance, those behind these acts have sought to provoke a popular insurrection amongst our people. Reaching under water depths of 74 reaching under water depths of 7a metres with no fins and without taking a breath. We are joined alive by a new Diving World Record holder. Welcome to the programme. We start in Western Europe where hundreds of people remain unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in decades. 120 people are so far known to have died as Record Rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel described the floods there as a catastrophe. Torrential rain has also devastated parts of belgium, The Netherlands and luxembourg. Swollen rivers, including the rhine, the meuse and the arr, have filled towns and villages, destroying homes and leaving many stranded. In the town of erftstadt in germany, whole houses have been submerged and a landslide has demolished parts of the town. Our correspondent, jenny h
of an announcement, on a breakaway tournament. how nasa is attempting to make history with the first powered flight on another planet. hello and welcome to the programme. tensions between moscow and prague have escalated russia has expelled 20 diplomats, a day after the czech republic announced they were expelling 18 russian diplomats identified as secret agents. this includes two men suspected of involvement in a deadly explosion at a czech arms depot seven years ago. britain claims they re the same two men who tried to kill a former spy with a nerve agent three years ago. our security correspondent gordon corera has the story. the aftermath of a deadly explosion. in october 2014, this arms depot in the czech countryside blew up. it took a month to find the remains of two men who worked there. it was widely assumed to have been an accident, until now. a key piece of evidence came when investigators found an e mail requesting permission for two men to inspect the site. atta
warnings of a humanitarian crisis on the us border as record numbers try to illegally cross into america. and a space rock from the dawn of the solar system visible as a major asteroid passes planet earth. welcome to bbc news. here in the uk, two police officers are in hospital after clashes with protesters in the city of bristol. thousands of people were demonstrating against a proposed new law that would give police more powers to limit street protests. as the hours went by, it turned violent. the uk s home secretary condemned what she called unacceptable thuggery and disorder. 0ur correspondent andrew plant sent this report from the scene. in a protest against new police powers, it was soon police themselves who became the target. vans and a police car set on fire, fireworks thrown into the crowd as around 1,000 protesters gathered in bristol city centre in what has been, police say, the worst violence the city has seen in years. there s a row of police blocking off what i